Myron Floren

Composer, accordionist, educator and singer, educated at Augustana College. He entertained at World War II USO camp shows and earned a War Department citation for front-line entertaining. After the War, he began a radio career in Saint Louis, Missouri until 1950, and, from 1949-1950, he headed the accordion department at the College of Music there. He was a soloist with several dance orchestras, until settling in with his decades-long career with the Lawrence Welk orchestra. Joining ASCAP in 1950, his instrumental compositions include "Skating Waltz in Swing", "Swingin' in Vienna", "Windy River", "Kavallo's Kapers", "Long Long Ago in Swing", "Dakota Polka", and "Minute Waltz in Swing".